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KEY FACTS

Official name
Port Adelaide Football Club

Known as
Port Adelaide Magpies

Nickname
Magpies

Former name
Port Adelaide

Former name date
1997-01-01

Formed
1996

Colours
Black and white

Associated clubs
Port Adelaide; Port Magpies Reserves; Port Magpies U18s; Port Adelaide-West Torrens; Port Magpies U16s

Affiliation (Current)
South Australian National Football league (SANFL) 1877–2019, 2021–2024

Home Ground
Alberton Oval

SANFL Premierships
1884, 1890, 1897, 1903, 1906, 1910, 1913-14, 1921, 1928, 1936-37, 1939, 1951, 1954-55-56-57-58-59, 1962-63, 1965, 1977, 1979-80-81, 1988-89-90, 1992, 1994-95-96,1998 & 1999 (36 total)

Senior Premierships
Championship of Australia: 1890, 1910, 1913-14 (4 total); Stanley H. Lewis Memorial Trophy: 1962-3-4, 1970, 1977, 1979-80, 1988-9, 1992, 1994, 1999 (12 total); SANFL Night/Knock-out/Pre-season Series: 1961, 1973, 1989 (3 total)

Most Games
392 - Russell Ebert (1968-78; 1980-85)

Most Goals
1044 - Tim Evans (1975–86)

League Top Goalkickers
J.Litchfield (13) 1883; R.Roy (22) 1884; C.Fry (32) 1889; J.McKenzie (32) 1890; J.Tomkins (27) 1897; J.Mathieson (30) 1905, (42) 1906 & (33) 1908; J.Quinn (32) 1907; F.Hansen (46) 1910, (41) 1911, (37) 1912 & (39) 1913; J.Dunn (33) 1914; L.Lackman (25) 1919; L.Dayman (86) 1929; A.McLean (80) 1947; R.Johns (70) 1956, (55) 1958, (69) 1960, (76) 1962 & (54) 1963; W.Dittmar (74) 1959 & (69) 1960; E.Freeman (81) 1966; T.Evans (87) 1977, (90) 1978, (146) 1980, (98) 1981, (125) 1982 & (127) 1984; S.Hodges (153) 1990, (129) 1994 & (117) 1996; M.Tylor (97) 1992 & (90) 1993; B.Eddy (53) 2017 (37 total)

Magarey Medalists
S.Malin (1899); J.Mack (1907); S.Hosking (1910, 1915); J.Ashley (1914); C.Adams (1921); P.Bampton (1925); B.Quinn (1938, 1945); D.Boyd (1956); G.Motley (1964); T.Obst (1967); R.Ebert (1971, 1974, 1976, 1980); P.Woite (1975); G.Anderson (1986); S.Hodges (1990); N.Buckley (1992); T.Brown and R.O'Connor (tied) (2001); B.Ebert (2003); J.Clayton (2005)

Headquarters
Brougham Place, Alberton, SA 5014

Postal Address
PO Box 379, Port Adelaide, SA, 5015

Phone: (08) 8447 4044 

Email
email@pafc.com.au

Website
portadelaidefc.com.au

CEO
A.R.C.McLean

President
F.B.Harvey

Port Adelaide Magpies



"On Saturday 29 March 1997, six months after defeating Central District in the 1996 SANFL grand final, Port Adelaide embarked on its 116th season of senior football in the state’s premier competition with a seven-point win over Sturt. To all external appearances, it was business as usual - except that, underneath the facade of normality, everything had changed. No longer was the team that took to the field in the trademark black-and-white prison bar guernseys the primary manifestation of a club that could trace its origins all the way back to 13 May 1870 ... The club’s primary manifestation was now playing on a bigger stage, and that very afternoon, at the Melbourne Cricket Ground ..."

John Devaney on the split which resulted in Port Adelaide teams being fielded in both the SANFL and AFL

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1956 Season (SANFL) Fixture

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Port Adelaide's 1956 Fixture

Rnd H&A Club Q1Q2Q3Q4 S R Opponent Q1Q2Q3Q4 S Mgn Grd Date SC
1 H Port Adelaide 4.56.1312.1919.26 140 WON Sturt 3.44.55.76.9 45 95 ALB Apr 21 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
2 H Port Adelaide 2.45.108.1313.18 96 WON Norwood 2.63.87.117.15 57 39 ADO Apr 25 (Wed, 2:10) Scores
3 H Port Adelaide 2.47.614.816.18 114 WON West Torrens 1.12.45.67.7 49 65 ALB May 5 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
4 H Port Adelaide 3.66.88.1413.14 92 WON North Adelaide 1.13.34.67.13 55 37 KEN May 12 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
5 H Port Adelaide 2.29.313.716.10 106 WON Glenelg 1.71.82.113.13 31 75 ALB May 19 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
6 H Port Adelaide 4.16.57.87.10 52 WON West Adelaide 0.11.53.75.10 40 12 KEN May 26 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
7 A Port Adelaide 6.813.1416.1927.22 184 WON Norwood 3.26.59.711.9 75 109 NOR Jun 2 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
8 H Port Adelaide 4.59.1113.1921.21 147 WON South Adelaide 2.35.35.47.5 47 100 ALB Jun 9 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
9 A Port Adelaide 4.28.510.915.19 109 WON Glenelg 3.47.59.912.11 83 26 GLE Jun 30 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
10 H Port Adelaide 2.05.710.1213.16 94 WON Sturt 3.24.56.89.11 65 29 ADO Jul 7 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
11 A Port Adelaide 6.511.814.1115.13 103 WON West Torrens 2.03.65.96.12 48 55 THB Jul 14 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
12 A Port Adelaide 1.22.45.115.13 43 WON North Adelaide 1.14.25.35.8 38 5 PRO Jul 21 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
13 H Port Adelaide 4.56.89.1410.16 76 WON West Adelaide 0.11.83.134.20 44 32 ALB Jul 28 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
14 A Port Adelaide 2.14.66.910.11 71 LOST South Adelaide 5.36.311.413.5 83 -12 ADO Aug 4 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
15 H Port Adelaide 3.47.69.1113.11 89 WON Norwood 1.23.54.57.6 48 41 ALB Aug 11 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
16 A Port Adelaide 2.34.89.1111.12 78 WON Sturt 0.20.33.34.9 33 45 UNL Aug 18 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
17 A Port Adelaide 1.25.46.107.13 55 WON West Adelaide 1.33.66.77.8 50 5 ADO Aug 25 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
18 H Port Adelaide 0.21.42.57.9 51 WON North Adelaide 0.23.23.23.2 20 31 ALB Sep 1 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
2SF H Port Adelaide 2.56.1710.1812.22 94 WON West Adelaide 5.25.37.88.10 58 36 ADO Sep 15 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
GF H Port Adelaide 3.24.58.812.9 81 WON West Adelaide 1.54.85.99.11 65 16 ADO Sep 29 (Sat, 2:10) Scores
 

Footnotes

* Behinds calculated from the 1965 season on.
+ Score at the end of extra time.